Split Balmung into 2 separate servers

[vio_p]

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Personally if i was in charge of doing it i'd do it based off of activity with the main focus on anyone who was not subbing an account for a year+ and came back for SB would be automatically moved to a new server regardless with an added bonus of any person who is a couple and wants to play with their partner gets moved together on the new server. yes they may have friends and family on the server they've been moved from but if they werent playing pre sb then they either have other means of contacting those people or just didnt care enough for them to contact them while they werent actively subbing the game.

[Ferocious]

Sure it sucks having queues of 4k (lol, i ain't waiting that..) and you want to play, but what can you do? That's life.

Right now, Leviathan has queue of 4k+ and it's hardly moving. Yet the server is still open for transfer/character creation.

Seriously, it's another server they need to close down. The wait times are getting ridiculous.

[Ayer2015]

Personally if i was in charge of doing it i'd do it based off of activity with the main focus on anyone who was not subbing an account for a year+ and came back for SB would be automatically moved to a new server regardless with an added bonus of any person who is a couple and wants to play with their partner gets moved together on the new server. yes they may have friends and family on the server they've been moved from but if they werent playing pre sb then they either have other means of contacting those people or just didnt care enough for them to contact them while they werent actively subbing the game.

That would just make your customers angry, and rightfully so.... not worth it

[Katryn]

There is no way for a server split to work without extreme customer backlash. If people couldn't handle two days of Raubhan savage and Pipin extreme, gods help ya if you try to force a move on them. That said, it's a shame that this is the case. A forced split from the existing serfvers--essentially social dynamite--is the only way I think we have hope of seeing any real improvement.

1. Message all players who have characters on the servers that are to be terminated both via e-mail, on mogstation and in game.

2. Give 30 / 60 / 90 days for them to select where to transfer their character(s) among a selection of pre-determined worlds. This would give people time to plan for the move and would hopefully help large communities not get shattered.

3. Offer some form of compensation or transfer for things like housing, apartments, airships, etc.

4. Grant all players who actively take part in the move--i.e. selecting a new world for their character(s) with worthwhile compensation for positively and actively taking part in resolving this problem.

6. Move unclaimed / unselected characters to whichever world SE desires since their player did not actively choose to take responsibility for them.

...And there you have it. The huge servers are dispersed, people have enough time to sort things with friends / fc / community, people get compensated for the annoyances of these actions and rewarded for actively taking part.

[Paladinleeds]

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Problem is, is that everyone would then select one server. You'd have to set a cap per server on a first come first serve basis. Once the cap is filled, no more characters allowed to go there. They then have to select a new world. But that would then face the earlier backlash of "I can't play with my friends!" because they didn't select it in time and they'd feel that their delay in getting the message or whatever is SE's fault. Unfortunately, I think the random split (with FC's getting to stick together in one server, while friends lists and linkshells go cross-realm) is the way to go. Swap one of the servers in a different datacentre with Balmung or Gilgamesh (to put Gilgamesh and Balmung on different datacentres), then ensure the split is only moving people within the same datacentre. That way, all your contacts from that realm you were on before remain. There'd still be a huge backlack (there would be however a forced server split is done), but I think this might be the safest way to do it as it would help people keep contacts much easier.

[Rita1989]

I think the queue times are being made worse by DF being unstable at peak times, there is 0 queue right now and was 200-500 during the day its hardly at the breaking point just give it a week or two and it will go back to normal.

If you cant wait there is free transfers...

[AlphaFox]

Kinda makes me wonder, if Balmung were to be reopened, simply cus the levels finally got to a safe level, do you think people would start trying to flood back in?

[Arutan]

Besaid + Fabul = Balmung? I may have missed something in my FF culture

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Kinda makes me wonder, if Balmung were to be reopened, simply cus the levels finally got to a safe level, do you think people would start trying to flood back in?

Almost inevitably so, yes.

A big factor in that is how Mateus turns out as a second RP server. If it's still languishing, many people from there might give up and simply go to the larger option. That alone has been a huge reason roleplay on other servers has died off. People always had the choice to transfer onto Balmung where they were practically guaranteed to find RP.

[Beatrice]

Besaid + Fabul = Balmung? I may have missed something in my FF culture

Back in 1.0 there were several server mergers. A lot of the servers we have now didn't exist by the names they have now. The original server I was on was Rabanastre which got turned into Durandal and then Durandal got split in half to form Hyperion.